Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

I write this as I travel to Birmingham to participate in a panel discussion with Nick Shackleton-Jones and Robin Hoyle on the role of social media in learning. The internet and mobile technologies are changing our lives as completely as the invention of writing, printing, the telephone and radio/TV have done in the past.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 16, 2013

I don''t often have cause to write about French singers on this blog. It is true that, at the time of writing, I am on my way to Lyon to run a workshop on blended learning, but otherwise the connection is tenuous to say the least, as you will see.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 20, 2011

Laura Layton-James is a long-standing colleague of mine who has recently started her own blog, Purple Learning. She writes: I like to think of traditional training as a wedding cake: a rich mix of the right ingredients to make a delicious creation perfect for the traditional wedding.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Your search doesn't lead you to slide shows full of bullet points and multiple-choice questions, but to blogs, Wikipedia articles, screencasts and lots and lots of videos. Some will specialise in the e-learning tutorials with which we're all familiar, but many more will never get to write a multiple-choice question.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 19, 2012

Well, I’d say those who (1) like making things, (2) can write clearly, (3) are well organised and (4) can devote serious blocks of time. These days a great deal of that guiding is going to be online, using web sites, forums, wikis, blogs and all sorts of communities of practice. Which ones?

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Erasmus also advised every student and teacher to keep a notebook, organised by subject, “so that whenever je lights on anything worth noting down, he may write it in the appropriate section.” What Erasmus could not have foretold was that his words of wisdom would still ring true almost exactly 500 years later but using the latest technology.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 4, 2009

June's Big Question on the Learning Circuits Blog asks a personal question: How much time do you spend and how do you find the time for reading blogs, twitter, social networks, etc.? Let's start with blogging. I've established a routine of posting at least twice a week and of writing fairly long pieces, say 300-500 words.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 22, 2010

January Learning in 3D: a stop on the world blog book tour (review) Is it time for Learning Technologies to use learning technologies? British Telecom Dare2Share case study Who writes web content? Excel Everest (review) Rather than getting depressed, get going What blogging has become A solution looking for a problem?

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

One of the good things about blogs is that they attract debate and you can learn a lot from differing opinions. But it set me thinking about how this whole blogging experience had changed from when I started three years and 320 posts ago. I didn't start blogging for professional reasons and had no high expectations.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 3, 2010

The February Big Question on the Learning Circuits Blog (I know, it’s March already and I’m late on this one) queries what the place is for instruction and deep reflection in a culture in which people increasingly just dip into things and move on. And some of the most thoughtful people I know very rarely put their thoughts in writing.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 26, 2010

Somebody had to be writing this stuff. Everyone who posts to a forum, writes a blog, tweets or maintains an online profile is making a significant contribution to the body of online content. These people would do well to consult Ginny Redish's excellent Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 22, 2007

Anyway, on the way over I was reflecting, as you do, that there's something not quite complete about the communications process as applied to blogs. But when it comes to blogging, my good intentions are frustrated. I write a posting. You, by navigating to my blog site or by receiving notification through an RSS feed, read this.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Who does not read web articles, blogs, forum posts and wiki pages to obtain factual information? It is certainly disruptive, because it obviously requires much tighter editing and really good writing. Long before the micro-learning term was coined, the practice was widespread, almost ubiquitous.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

It's generally acknowledged that only one in a hundred writes a blog or starts up a new thread on a forum. Even if they have the inclination, in most cases they don’t have the tools to communicate as freely as they do outside work. And the numbers don’t stack up. Only nine per cent reply to those postings.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 11, 2008

These children are also blogging which has created a huge amount of enthusiasm for writing - once again they're leading it but more importantly we're not in class! It's also encouraging to see that myth dispelled that no-one writes anymore - chances are that previous generations never wrote so much or so confidently.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Who does not read web articles, blogs, forum posts and wiki pages to obtain factual information? It is certainly disruptive, because it obviously requires much tighter editing and really good writing. Long before the micro-learning term was coined, the practice was widespread, almost ubiquitous.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 7, 2006

For me, it will probably be my first complete year of blogging. I have learned absolutely masses from both the process of blogging and from the content of my colleagues' blogs. It took me a while to develop my own blogging style - I have for years written columns in training magazines and I thought this would be the same.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 22, 2007

and he's supposed to have a blog although I can't find it. Nevertheless, this guy can write and he's not afraid who he upsets. And you should download these reflections because right at the end you'll find a brilliant analysis by Daniel Wain called Lies, Damn Lies and a Few Home Truths. Please read it.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 12, 2009

The Learning Circuits Blog Big Question for January asks what are your challenges, plans and predictions for 2009? I also want to write a short and really accessible book on learning technology for trainers. Here are my offerings: Challenges Keeping innovation and change on the agenda when all anyone's interested in is survival.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 6, 2007

April's big question in the Learning Circuits blog is 'ILT and Off-the-Shelf Vendors – What Should They Do? ', in particular about the fact that good content is now freely available on the web, customers want their classroom training in smaller and smaller chunks and various other adverse trends. I think not.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2005

For some years now the newsletter from the Epic Group, Europe's largest bespoke e-learning developer, has functioned like the personal blog of its CEO, Donald Clark. Well, wait no longer, because Donald has now retired from his position, taken the money and now writes for fun.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2006

The author encourages readers to contribute to the re-writing of the book using a wiki. He writes: "These established metaphors fall short in an era defined by rapid knowledge development. The print edition of the book has been self-published using Lulu. The author has ". This is not what we've come to expect!

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OCTOBER 23, 2006

I tried to think of other situations in which we are asked to consume media which has no face, no named person doing the writing or the speaking. We have text books, lectures, podcasts, tutor-supported distance learning courses, classroom courses, coaching, blogging. OK, so what about education and training? Nope, nothing there either.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 8, 2007

I get the impression he's writing for me. By applying realtively informal methods - blogs, wikis, communities of practice, coaching, webquests, etc. So, what do I think? Jay's friendly, unassuming and approachable personality shines through the book. There are just two issues I'd like to take up.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 31, 2007

Blogging has achieved a great deal in helping me to make connections, particularly internationally, but many people I know are not bloggers and probably never will be. In this sense I would like Facebook to demonstrate more value than other online communities that I have participated in.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Seeing this pic on the Thinking Worlds Blog of the team at Caspian Learning celebrating their award for best game or simulation at last Thursday's E-Learning Awards in London (and yes that's Donald Clark there on the left, joining in) reinforced for me just how much fun these events can be, particularly when you're a winner.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 5, 2012

There's book a I've been meaning to write which I hoped would address the problem. She also has a very readable Usable Learning blog. Like Cathy Moore and Connie Malamed , Julie knows how to write for the l&d audience. P.S. I'm still going to write that book, only now I've got to up my game.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2011

This time last year, I wrote the following in the Onlignment blog under the heading Why I’m not going to speak from a script again : For some reason, there are lessons that take a long time to learn – however often an action leads to negative consequences, you just seem bound to repeat it. As a natural speaker, my father is my model here.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Or they could be cognitive – our ability to write poetry, perform mental arithmetic, fix faulty equipment, solve crossword puzzles or program computers. Perhaps they maintain a blog, interview experts for podcasts or put out video commentaries on hot topics. Yes, skills are what make us what we are.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Or they could be cognitive – our ability to write poetry, perform mental arithmetic, fix faulty equipment, solve crossword puzzles or program computers. Perhaps they maintain a blog, interview experts for podcasts or put out video commentaries on hot topics. Yes, skills are what make us what we are.

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